Tag: 2024 budget

Rep. Dunn Wants Alabama Shipbuilder Investigated Over Alleged Ties to China

A member of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs said President Joe Biden’s administration should investigate a U.S. Navy vendor with alleged ties to a Chinese company. “What I want to know is, are the Chinese weakening our Navy and Coast Guard from within?” Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) asked during…


Crisis as Bad as 2008: Democrats Spotlight Consequences of a US Default

Democrats from the Joint Economic Committee presented a report about the possible consequences of Republicans not raising the debt ceiling. The group was led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who warned during a March 23 press conference that the Republican Party’s stance on the debt limit…


White House Says GOP Budget Cuts Job Training Services, Endangers Workers

The White House has strongly condemned the “extreme MAGA” Republican House Freedom Caucus budget proposal, calling it a disaster for American families. The White House asserted in a March 23 statement that the Republicans’ proposal would impose devastating cuts that would increase costs for working- and middle-class families while protecting and extending tax breaks skewed to…


Senate Republicans Take Aim at Biden’s ‘Bloated’ Budget

Senate Republicans tore into President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget plan on March 22, holding that the administration has been “radical and reckless” in its spending. “The one thing I think Republicans agree on is the president’s budget spends too much, taxes too much, borrows too much, and underfunds our most important priority, which is national…